In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A whore is a whore is a whore. Except when he's something else completely. From the writings of King Helios Dayspring, High… — Belinda McBride Copy Share Image
I read a lot of science fiction, and it's ingrained, in a certain way, and I've been very involved with Kerouac and… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
“Mark Rosewater wrote: Science fiction, at is core, is about exploring what if. It is literature investigating humanity’s potential. Fantasy, at its… — James M. Corkill Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always loved about genre, comic books, science fiction and fantasy is that there's a certain level of… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
“I’d likte to welcome you to the land of free, where healthy, wealthy, happy people contribute to the civilization under the protection… — B. Barmanbek Copy Share Image
I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
“You already know what the machine will write on your arm. That lie you’ve been telling yourself—you know what it is. That… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
“- I didn't seduce her! OK, I didn't know exactly what I was doing. It seemed like fun and then... well, THAT… — Momchil Yoskov Copy Share Image
“All brightness was gone, leaving nothing. We stepped out of the tent onto nothing. Sledge and tent were there, Estraven stood beside… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Almsgiving is a major tenet of Islam. It's also a kick in the pants of the highest order. Nothing is as cool… — Lyda Morehouse Copy Share Image
Recently, the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke talked about the ways the lives of human beings will be changed in the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“I wanted moments like this to last forever. If it couldn't, I wanted to play it on repeat so I wouldn't forget… — Megan Duke Copy Share Image
Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Theres two tiers of science fiction: the McDonalds sci-fi like Star Trek, where they have an adventure and solve it before the… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
I think we tried to make a film [Moon] that was about human beings as opposed to going from one special effects… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
“I was born in a house with a million rooms, built on a small, airless world on the edge of an empire… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
I'm reluctant to get involved in science fiction, because I feel like I've done it and done it well, so unless something… — Jamie Bamber Copy Share Image
'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the future. No one had done… — Martin Villeneuve Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile here I am- Earthborn woman, a mere barbaric maula, geting deeper into Imperial Space with each passing light second. I should… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
In America, there are people who don't read science fiction but still think about tomorrow, so it's not only the force of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Especially, I think, living in any fantasy or science fiction world means really understanding what you're seeing and reading really densely on… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be,… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
I seem to offend everybody. I just never got into the universe. I don't seem to have a tremendous amount of discipline… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Just in case you’re wondering,” Gage says, breaking the silence, “this alliance of ours doesn’t mean I like you.” “Feeling’s mutual.” Julian… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“If her daughter’s ship had been disintegrated in space there would never be evidence of it, never an answer to what had… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“[ Fahrenheit 451 ] is a book of warning. It is a reminder that what we have is valuable, and that sometimes… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“As they walked, it seemed almost every building had some similar contrivance as decoration, adorning the street in a cacophony of clangs,… — A.F. Stewart Copy Share Image
I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image